Transformers came in the form of die-cast toys, comic books and an after-school cartoon series

dude, i must have been buying the cheap transformers, 'cause mine were all made of plastic. i feel like redneck trash now.

also, imagine the cartoon trying today to get away with Megatron being a handgun. all kinds of advocacy groups would be (heh) up in arms about it.

i only link to the article to remind folks that the Transformers DVD was released last week.

"It's a bittersweet day, to say the least," said Anthony H. Guerino, an attorney who represented 10 workers [who said they pooled their money together to have a coworker buy lottery tickets, and claimed that he had the winning ticket and wouldn't tell them]. "They've always been a spiritual group. I could see them deflate."

i'm not sure what their spirituality had to do with their greed. a strange comment to make on the subject.


Several workers said they were disappointed, but wished the winner well and said they held no bad feelings for Marquez.

"We never really claimed the ticket. We just wanted to know," said Ida Davis.


"We never claimed the ticket. That's why we hired a lawyer." i think they'd know he had it if Marquez suddenly quit his job and moved to some tropical paradise.

ah well, doesn't matter. they didn't win anyway.

Richard Morgan, representing Christie's, said McCartney wrote the lyrics for "Hey Jude" in 1967 and 1968 but had provided no evidence that he had ever owned the piece of paper on which they were written. -- a disagreement about who properly owns the handwritten lyrics to "Hey Jude"

incentive to retain the receipts for every ream of paper you've ever bought, just so you can one day prove you owned the paper.

Jean's redesigned again. why didn't she go with the pink kitties?

Buffy links all in one post:

Buffy named one of TVGuide's Top 50 shows.

the voice cast list for Buffy Animated is up at IMDb.

What's your most irrational fear?
Dying and having no one to find me for two weeks. And when they did, my dogs, Daisy, Alex and Zippy, were eating my tongue. Apparantly that's what dogs go for first.
Alyson Hannigan Q&A from Teen People.

the Nebula Award winners were announced on Saturday. "The Body," which was nominated for best script, lost to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. once again, swords and martial arts rule.

syndicated shows are gaining in the ratings. don't care about any of them except (of course) syndiBuffy, which is up 18%.

ASH on Hollywood Squares.

R2 The Young Ones DVD release in May. anxiously awaiting an R1 release.

a Congressional candidate in Alabama is proposing a one cent "Nasa Tax" on science fiction and space-related literature, toys and games. [more]

so what'd everyone think of the preview to next week's Buffy?

been having a lot of dreams lately featuring lots of really mean rhinos chasing me or jumping out of trees at me. each time i have the dream, there are more rhinos than before. i'm not sure why the rhinos frighten me so badly.

season one of Red Dwarf coming (well, 'coming' as in 'to the UK') to DVD in November.

Angel is a vampire. he's stong and fast. he killed people for pleasure for over a century. and the best way he could come up with to try to kill Wesley was to put a pillow over his face to smother him? Angel could have killed Wes quickly, in a blink. he didn't though. he also didn't need to shout and bring the orderlies and the rest of the gang running in. deep down, Angel didn't want to kill Wesley.

ack. i received a jury summons thingie at my old address. i'll have to pick it up after work to see what it says.

i saw Blade 2 this weekend. i wish i hadn't.

swords, vampires and martial arts. you'd think it had to be a good movie (or am i the only person who thinks that way?), but it wasn't. there were good things about it, but the story was weak, the focus was on the special effects ("dazzle them with special effects and hope they don't notice that the story sucks!"), and that GODDAMNED "LOVE INTEREST" THING they had to throw in. and what was with the Smackdown moves? bah! the first Blade wasn't exactly spectacular, but it was much better than the sequel.

the good things: swords. vampires. martial arts. the soundtrack wasn't bad either.

overall, it reenforced my usual desire to wait for the dvd.

why is it that after taking a cough suppressant i'm coughing more? stupid pharmaceutical companies.

i think someone didn't like the way last night's X-Files ended. i'm still undecided.

three items removed from my wishlist. thanks, DEQ Guy!

i'm sad. bye, guys.

ok, should be working. if not, let me know.

in happy news, the nominees (link changed 4/29/02) for the Hugo Awards were announced. "Once More, With Feeling" was nominated in the Best Dramatic Presentation catagory.

::segue:: the sorely missed Tinman sent to me a link to a transcript of BUFFY CONTRE LES VAMPIRES episode "Encore une fois, avec des sentiments". unfortunately, je ne parle pas français (bless the delightfully humorous Babelfish. here's a bit of the beginning of the episode Babelfished to English.).

no, wait, something's wrong. that means i'm a bigger numbskull than i thought.

woo hoo! fixed it! woo hoo!

(this is not a "Go, terrence!" woo hoo! it's a "Woo Hoo! Blogger's simple enough for a fucking numbskull like me to figure out!")

permalinks aren't working. archives aren't publishing. what's up with that?

continuing:

Oh, and there are others: Joyce Summers, the only woman with a hairstyle older than the vampires, comes with . . . yep, you guessed it: That same damn hairstyle. Angel comes with clothing from Kleptomaniac.com and International Male. Cordelia comes in both classic uber-tan and the new 'Angel' version, it looks like there's nothing in the box but you have to wait a few weeks for her to show up again.

Joyce also comes with small ACE bandages and an assortment of burial shrouds :(

Angel comes with lots of hair gel. no two Cordelias come with the same outfit. Wesley comes with a tweed suit, but a year later the charcoal grey sweater will arrive, along with some little rubby stuff you can put on his face to make him look unshaven and disheveled. Gunn comes naked :P

someone needs to mass produce a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Style and Stake Center. i want one. my DEQ friend says:

You could style her hair and do her make up and get her out of that awkward and ugly skirt phase from last season. Plus there's a matching Willow with increasingly tacky clothes including a whole set of t-shirts with obscure and bizarre screenprints. And hats. Sorta the color-blind pagan hobo look. Tres chic! Xander comes with a recliner and a beer. Spike comes with only one outfit and Dawn comes with issues . . . Oh, and a naughty school girl outfit for the dads to play with.

i think the Willow add-on should also contain big fuzzy sweaters and coats and fur collar shirts. the Giles set will be a dazzling array of tweed suits.

happy birthday, Travis, wherever you are.

today's a good day. i don't know why. nothing particularly good happened today (so far), but it's still a good day.

made a minor change to the navigation bar, just below the link to email me. yeah, it's a desperate attempt to get people to buy me things.

FOX has cancelled Ally McBeal. woo hoo! if only we could get FX to stop showing it, i'd be a happy terrence. especially if they'd move M*A*S*H to the former Ally timeslot and go back to showing two eps of Buffy each weeknight.

speaking of Buffy, i flipped over to FX last night to watch, saw which episode it was, and said "Ah, "Band Candy." Mikey, who professes a strong dislike for the show, happened to be walking through the room and he said "Ooh! I like this one!" as he plopped onto the couch and settled in. closeted Buffy lover!

he really does sing. i thought it was one of those internet hoax/joke things, but it really happens. [via Biggerhand, which i'm not sure how i found, but i did, and the photo in the upper left scares me for some reason]

these people irritate me.

give it up. Lorne Greene is dead. unless you're thinking of this one.

"Twentieth Century Fox is in final negotiations to ink producers Gil Netter and Wayne Rice and original scribe Philip Stark for a sequel to "Dude, Where's My Car?", the 2000 comedy about two sophomoric underachievers."

woo hoo!

all through Angel, the boyfriends kept saying "Wesley's gonna diiiieeee! Wesley's gonna diiiieeee!" my lamoid comeback was "Nuh uh! Shut up!" but he didn't. he even woke me in the middle of the night: "Wesley's gonna diiiieeee!" bah!

How is Spike so much worse than Angel? because Angel has a soul? where was that soul while Angel was trying to kill Wesley, huh? did it go on vacation with Cordelia? Angel is nearly as monstrous as Angelus.


still waiting for April 30 and new Buffy.

James Marsters, John de Lancie and Bruce Campbell scheduled to make appearances during season 3 of Andromeda

the Boyfriend and i watched Behind Enemy Lines this weekend. its runtime is only supposed to be 106 minutes, but it felt like three hours, probably because three quarters of the film is Owen Wilson running. Owen runs through a forest! Owen runs through a field! Own runs through a muddy field! Owen runs through yet another forest! Owen runs through a field, over a hill and into a forest! bah. the DVD special features include 90 minutes of deleted footage, all of it Owen Wilson running somewhere.

i thought i'd never see Jimmy Bond again! unfortunately, it means i have to see that skank Yves Harlow again. ok, i actually got all excited during the preview for next week's X-Files when i saw Langly, Byers and Frohike, and i even cheered when i saw Yves. yeah, she's a skank who put her skank hands on my Jimmy, but i missed her

someone's grouchy.

this sent me into a coughing fit.

segue: i found this at Best Buy yesterday (what? you think i stay cooped up while sick?). it was a tough decision, but i decided instead on the memory upgrade for the computer. still, i'll have to go back for it sometime.

bronchitis. strep throat. sinus infection. asthma triggered by afore mentioned bronchitis. i feel worse than doo doo right now. i blame the Girl Scouts. Mikey brought home some of their diabolical confections recently, and i gave in to the tempation. now i'm diseased. eeevil little girls.

the only thing the doctor gave me is antibiotics. if i were a doctor, everyone, no matter what ailment they seek treated, would get some Rx that causes hallucinations, or severe loopiness in the least. what's the fun of prescription medicine if it doesn't come with "Warning! Do not operate heavy machinery!"?

there's a bluejay building a nest in the redbud tree just off my balcony. the nest will be less than five feet from the railing. it's fascinating to watch the little bugger tearing twigs from other parts of the tree and pulling grass from the ground below, then spending what feels (to me) like hours positioning that one little piece properly.

you know what movie sucked? Black Knight. i'm not talking about historical inaccuracies. i just mean that Martin Lawrence sucks. suuuuuucks!

i've decided that i want a bird that can learn to talk, and i'll teach it to say "If I ever get out of this cage, I'll eat your eyes out!"

Confessions of a Spoiler Whore, though really, she didn't confess much, and it's not really about her being a spoiler whore. the subtitle ("The pleasures of participatory TV") would have made a better title. and hey! it's nonspoilery!

To read makes my speaking English good.


:::sigh::: i'll try to proofread better.

things that make you pause for a moment and say "what the…?"

The Price Is Right was playing in the lounge as i was getting coffee. Richard, a member of the USMC, has just bid the closest (without going over) on an appliance or furniture or something. Bob Barker, walking him across the stage to the next game, says "Come on up, Richard. Richard the Marine. Richard, I've got something that'll make any marine smile..." Bob was then interrupted by the announcer guy shouting "A new car!" and the audience cheering, but i'm really wondering what Bob would have said if he'd had the chance. did he not know his microphone was on? maybe it'll end up on one of those blooper shows that Dick Clark likes to host.

but can you imagine Bob Barker naked with his marine boy toy?

last night's syndiBuffy was "Ted." while watching, i suddenly realized that Ted's behavior is close to that of my mom's husband, with the whole seemingly the most pleasant and nice man he could be, except secretly to that one person he's a total psycho.

so, anyone want to help me take down a psychotic android?

On the SCI FI Channel:

Susan Sarandon will headline the cast of the upcoming miniseries sequel Frank Herbert's Children of Dune [more]

SCI FI has acquired the rights to air reruns of all nine seasons of The X-Files and all three seasons of Roswell. [more]

Kevin Smith (the Dogma guy, not the dead Xena guy, 'cause dead people are dead, and can't be the host, unless this is a crossover... ha!... with John Edward's show) will host a SCI FI Channel original special on the Star Wars saga. [more]

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new eps of Farscape start Friday.

i had the Farscape Best of Season One DVDs last week. we had trouble getting them to work. our DVD player kept saying 'no disc' while we screamed back 'fuck you!' eventually, the little devil-machine let us watch the first disc, with the Premiere ep and "DNA Mad Scientist." good eps. wish i could have seen what was on the other two discs.

in other Farscape news, Sci Fi Channel has scheduled a 23 hour marathon for May 31, beginning at 7am EDT.

yes, in fact, i am a six year old girl. and besides kitties, i like bunnies and puppies and cows, and i skip rope and play jacks and wear knee high socks, and do all kinds of other girlie stuff. frogs are slimy. boys are icky. i want an E-Z Bake Oven for my birthday.

i am so getting an XBox.

new host. new, pre-made cute-kitty type template. i'm cheap and lazy.

uh, yeah. busy day. a busy weekend coming up. and all i seem to do now is sleep. i take naps at lunch. i nap for a couple of hours after work. i oversleep every morning lately. on my days off, i go to be early. i can't decide if there's something wrong, or if i'm just getting old.

did anyone watch Greg the Bunny?

the only reason i'd return to console gaming.

have you ever realized suddenly that you haven't seen in years a particular CD that you know you owned? i haven't seen it since i moved back to Tulsa four years ago, and only now realized it.

the WB is dropping Glory Days. i don't know if the show sucked that badly, as i've never seen an episode and had no interest in doing so. besides, they put Angel on vacation to show that last few eps of Glory Days, which is a bad way to keep viewers like me who watch only Angel on Mondays. and it pissed me off too, so i wouldn't watch GD out of spite anyway.

speaking of pissing me off, the WB still won't be bringing Angel back until April 15. between now and then, they'll be showing repeats of the makes-me-want-to-vomit-because-i-hate-that-fraking-show-that-much Seventh Heaven. this means that here in Tulsa, our local WB affiliate, which has syndicated SHit on at 9pm, will be showing three straight hours of SHit (i mean besides the three hours of shit shown on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays). i can't wait until that show ends up on ABC Family. you know it will.

in other Gets The Axe news, the WB also cut No Boundaries and My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star. i'm so broken up by this. feh, not really. i'd never heard of either until now.

can anyone tell me why "Chuckles Bites the Dust" is considered the best episode of any series ever? i watched. i "heh"ed a few times. i didn't think it was all that great. the friend who made me watch it thinks it's hilarious, but MTM is to him what Buffy is to me, so i can't trust his judgement. or his stupid answer. me: "why's this the best episode ever?" him: "because!" me: "no, really, explain it to me." him: "because, she laughed, then she cried!" ok.

it hasn't been bad so far. i went back to bed for more sleep. later called my sister and asked her to give me a ride to the tire place, which means i got to spend the morning and have lunch with her. we also planned for dinner at her house, which she just moved into, on Friday. the tire place took forever, but they did it for free, so i'm happy about that. and lastly, i finally get to work, and i'm the only one in my department here! yip! a half day of not listening to my departmentmates inanities! yay!

yay! getting into my car this morning, i noticed that i have a flat tire! today's going to be a good day!

nothing happening today. everyone, please return to your homes and go back to bed until tomorrow. thank you, that is all.

need some Buffy characters for your desktop? go here. [via Schmuchbait, who has moved]

before i get too deep into a He-man theme for the day: the Greg the Bunny series is finally going to air! yay! Seth Green's yummy shaven-headed or not.

neither this nor that's the Seth Green i'm interested in.


just because i need a sentence for links to assorted Seth.

eating cereal.

Angel comforts a distraught Oz.

wtf?

part two of an interview with He-Man, but that's not why i posted this. scroll down near the bottom to see something disturbing. no one ever put that on the cute kitten sites.

The History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the concept itself, not a history of Eternia).

Mad Monkey Kung Fu! Monkey Madness! Sock Monkeys! Monkeys vs. Robots! Barrel of Monkeys Keychain! Monkey loving man! Monkees loving man! Sea Monkeys! Mr. Monkey's Home Page! Steel Monkeys! Steal Monkeys! Law Monkeys! Snow Monkeys? Snow monkeys! Lawn snow monkeys! Texan snow monkeys! Instant Monkeys Online! Suckling monkeys! Grease Monkeys!

all this because Jean wanted to know the title of the film with evil monkeys.

why do they tempt me with Buffy spoilers? it's so hard not to click when you see "info on upcoming Buffy episodes that you just can't believe but must because they're all true! really!"

saw Donnie Darko. Frank the Bunny scared me.

(on Andy Hallett [just in case, beware reading past the "choosing between acting and singing" paragraph. may be spoilery]): There may even be a way to combine his talents. "Joss and I have been talking about doing a Host CD," Hallett says. "We're working on it. I'm all for it, make it kind of Las Vegas, lounge songs. We're in talks about it right now. Hopefully it will materialize."

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Britain's Prince William is the subject of a new TV Movie for ABC. probably one of those teen angst dramas. feh. if it does well in the ratings, ABC will probably turn it into a weekly series. if it does poorly, ABC will probably turn it into a weekly series. i know i'd tune in each week to hear William whine about being heir to the crown of the UK. "Harry, you twit! Give me back my septre or I shall tell Grandmum Gloriana Regina that it was YOU who started the fire at Windsor!"

tolkhan's recap: "As You Were" (wha? so i'm a couple weeks behind. and still missing "Older and Far Away," "Dead Things," "DoubleMeat Palace," "Smashed," and "Wrecked. i'll get them up some day)

they put Angel on a five week vacation for this?

note to self: if you happen to stumble upon it, do not read Angel/Spike slash at work.

if anyone's interested (and i know you all are), Rilgoran (my EQ character) completed his Occultist Skullcap quest last night. afterward, rather than doing anything productive (in an In-game sense, because playing Everquest isn't really all that productive), he used his invisibility spell on himself, then went around bonking people on the head and tickling monks.

my life is so fulfilling.

tonight, i probably won't do anything productive either. Nephew #1 is coming over for a few hours.


funny story about my nephew (part of it's funny. most of it not so much): my sister was called into an after school meeting with my nephew's kindergarten teacher. he's not paying attention in class, and (my sister said the teacher really said this) he's scribbling rather than coloring within the lines so he can finish quickly and go play. also, the teacher was concerned that he's not keeping up with the other kids. the teacher handed my sister a list of words that says the kids should be able to read by this point, but, she said my nephew can't read them. as my sister is looking over the list, my nephew leaned over and read the words to his mom. it seems that he's just refusing to read them by saying that he can't. i laughed when my sister told me the tale, but she didn't think it was so funny.


last night, i had nightmares about Kendra (the Slayer called after Buffy died in season one) returning as a vampire. she had a huge vampire coterie under her command, and they were trying to capture me because i knew where the Gem of Amara was. they didn't catch me (came close a few times), but they did slaughter most of the people i work with (still trying to decide if that last part is a bad thing).

speaking of, Was Angel Right to Destroy the Gem of Amara?

Scooby Doo trailer.

Now who's the damsel in distress?

anyone watch Celebrity Boxing last night? anyone doubt that Tonya and Todd would win? anyone else wish this show was Live Action Celebrity Death Match?

a few live-action Scooby Doo stills. Buffy's looking cute in the Grape Ape/Barney colors, but i don't remember the original Daphne Blake showing that much cleavage.

why does the name Scoobysnack.net crack me up so much? why does Animated Lust have nothing to do with lust?

Everquest is becoming a table top, pen and paper game. this is a good thing.

in case anyone's missed it, TVGuide print's current issue is "TV's Top MVPs 2002." named are James Marsters in Supporting Players and Joss Whedon in Writers (one of many sections absent from the Online article). listed in Faces to Watch are V'ulcan B'abe Jolene Blalock (with a *really* unflattering photo) and Kryptonian hottie Tom Welling.

also, there's an article commemorating the 25th anniversary of the debut of Three's Company, which i only mention to again say 'Joyce DeWitt for President in 2004!'

Crossroads and Crossroads, both films starring whores.

James Marsters is appearing on the cover of two magazines this month: Cinescape (scroll down) and Starburst.

been sick the last couple of days. yesterday, i had trouble breathing, like an all day asthma attack. my boss helpfully suggests that it's bronchitis. i'm hoping for something more exotic.

i'm going back to bed now.

the Evil Dead: Special Edition DVD comes out today (according to Dark Horizons. i've not seen mention of it anywhere else), and it has a kick-ass looking cover. i'd get it just for that, but come on, it's Evil Dead! the DVD also has commentary by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

i'm really quite worried for Wesley now. everything bad seems to happen to him, and he never catches a break. poor guy.

and eww, please, Fred and Gunn… too much sweetness rots! stop with the cutesy stuff, please, before i retch.

i miss Cordy.

i've been discussing "The Time Machine" with my DEQ friend, and we've decided that it'll probably be adapted into a bad series for television, starring Carmen Electra and a Pierce Brosnan look-and-sound-alike, and maybe a couple of plucky kids and a wise-cracking minority person with strange "customs". bleh.

in celebration of this glum possibility, here's some of my favorite time travelling television serieseses (in which time travel is an integral part of the premise):

Quantum Leap
The Time Tunnel
Voyagers!
Seven Days

honorable mentions:
Sliders
Farscape
X-Files episode "Monday"

action/adventure programmes i like that feature chesty/skin-suit-clad/scantily clad women-babe-things:
Mutant X
Relic Hunter
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
Wonder Woman

"Sergi said Kulhanek was put in a barbershop type chair where liquor was poured down her throat." Before she knew it, she was dead drunk."

and she was absolutely powerless to stop them!

whore. take some responsibility for your actions. feh.
[via Max, whose Buffy the SimVampire Slayer photos in the photo album somehow leave out Spike. oh, it's also a good thing that Alias post was at the very bottom.]

the nominees for Nebula Awards have been announced. "The Body" [spoilery, if you haven't seen the ep] has been nominated! hooray!

i've been invited! i'm so special!

i'm clickable fun!

i was thinking of having a small reception after the wedding, inviting a few friends, having wedding type foods and decorations and crap. but then i remembered that i'm broke and i hate weddings, so scratch that.

hmm… "Inside Hollywood's Greatest," a show featuring celebrity autopsies. it's my idea. don't steal it.

heck, why wait for autopsies? vivisection, anyone? first episode: Britney Spears (to quell any rumor of her starring in any Dazzler movie).

saw Artificial Intelligence: AI last night. never really had any interest or disinterest in it before. it was just kind of there. my thoughts on it now: Haley Joel Osment is a little creepy, in a 'I'm gonna star in the next remake of a Cape Fear' kind of way. after his 'mommy' dumped him off in the woods, and he's running from the Flesh Fair hounds, i kept thinking "where's Rick Deckard when you need him?" i also kept thinking "where can i get my own Jude Lawbot?"

the real unexamined story, though, is why William Hurt is building himself an army of Haley Joel Osments. can you imagine them marching across the planet? how terrifying would that be? no wonder humans are extinct in that future (which really should have been cut. blech. unnecessary sugary sappiness).

my rating (1 to 10):
base value: 6 (hey, any movie with William Hurt starts out a little higher than most)

modifiers: Jude Law +1; creepy little boy -3; cute teddy bear that i really want +2; sugary ending -2; half litre of rum i consumed while watching +2

final tally = 6 (or probably wouldn't choose to watch it again)

via Sci Fi Wire: The DVDfile.com Web site reported that the complete second-season DVD of Buffy the Vampire Slayer will hit stores on June 11.

yippee!

NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO! I WILL BURN HOLLYWOOD TO THE GROUND IF THIS HAPPENS!

via Dark Horizons: "Wild rumour of the day - pop diva Britney Spears rumoured to be up to play the superhero [Dazzler] (a pop star who can create light using her mutant abilities) in an adaptation of the 70's Marvel comic."

please, god, curse Britney with facial leprosy so this never happens. i'd rather my beloved Dazzler never make it to the big screen.

why couldn't my parents have named me something cool like 'Balthazar,' 'Ironicus' or 'Innothule'?

[from Sci Fi Wire] The Gotham Clock Tower Web site reported that Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) will play Dr. Harleen Quinzel in the pilot episode of Birds of Prey, which is based on a DC Comics series.

ack! i just read a possible spoiler for X-Files that means i'll have to start watching it again (i'm neither posting nor linking to the source here). it's terrible to contemplate, but i did notice that one portion of the spoiler is something that doesn't make sense, thus casting doubt on its veracity (as if the source of the rumored spoiler isn't enough to cast buttloads of doubt on it).

i took the day off for a court hearing that my family is dealing with, but it didn't get happen. the attorneys immediately asked for a continuance, which was granted. bah! but, not a wasted vacation day at all because i got to spend it with the Boyfriend, which is always a good thing.

so, tonight's Buffy night, featuring the return of Riley! what's everyone's favorite ex-Initiative, ex-Buffy boy toy been up to in the jungles of South America? why is he back? what will his arrival mean for Buffy and Spike? will he take his shirt off (i'm praying for it)? find out tonight!

oh, and about the previews for the next new Angel: go Wesley! i knew you'd do it!

Chuck Jones passed away on Friday and i'm just finding out about it. i think i'm going to have to take the rest of the day off.

Current Sci Fi Wire poll: In Queen of the Damned, Stuart Townsend takes on the role of the vampire Lestat, a part played by Tom Cruise in 1994's Interview With the Vampire. Who's the better bloodsucker?

Current Results:
Cruise doesn't suck. 22%
Townsend doesn't bite. 13%
Neither--I'm an Angel fan. 64%

the Boyfriend rented three movies this weekend with ex-Scoobs, by chance.

Bones, with Bianca Lawson. Kendra without an accent? no Mr. Pointy? eh, that's ok. interesting story idea, but everything was all too obvious for my tastes. plus, Pam Grier is staring to get scary.

Soul Survivors, with Eliza Dushku. she's tough talking, and bad ass (like all her other roles), and lesbianic. i think. the movie was very confusing. falling asleep for the last 20 minutes probably didn't help, but i was awakened at the end by the Boyfriend shouting "WTF? That doesn't make sense!" and he was awake for the whole thing. also, is it me, or does Casey Affleck sound like he has a mouthful of goldfish when he speaks?

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, with Eliza Dushku and Marc "I'm so yummy they should bottle me and sell me at finer retail establishments" Blucas. this movie, fun as it is on its own, is much funnier after a half litre of rum.